Remakes and reboots podcast notes

For my podcast i am going to be looking at judge dredd, the original in the 90's and the 2012 remake, these are just notes that will help me during my podcast.

Judge dredd was played by Stallone in the original and Karl Urban in the remake

it was filmed in Öræfi, Iceland, and Shepperton studios. Dredd 2012 was filmed in south Africa, cape town studios and several different parts of South Africa.

Because it was made in the 90's there would have been era relevant fears, for example the fear of our 'era' is terrorism, and this is shown in the remake, the enemy is a drug lord, in the early 90's there was fear of the cold war hovering around, and throughout the 90's there was government corruption and protests and riots. and this is reflected in the film, show relevant clips. explain  how story line is relevant to research.

The target groups are different, the original dredd is a unrealistic, cheesy, sci-fi shooter. Where as the new Dredd film is dark, gory graphic and very sinical in terms of storyline, so i think both films reach out to different audiences, but again this could be era relevant, since the millennium, films have become increasingly exposed to violence

the budget was $90,000,000 and made $113,000,000 at box office, explain how the CGI and mix of minatures was fairly good for its time, there were good and bad parts. Dredd 2012 had a budget of $50,000,000 it grossed just under $14,000,000 , which is a huge flop, this could have been for several reasons, the audience, its comparison to the comics being inaccurate, and the poor marketing, another reason is because it was an 18 there was such a small market, 15 year olds go to the cinema more than 18 year olds do, do they had a pretty shut off market.

there was marketing for the first film, they had posters, trailers on TV, they didn't put anything on the internet as it was still very new. Dredd 2012 was advertised with trailers and posters and a website, but the website was rushed and it was very basic.

The production for judge dread would have taken longer due to the lack in technology a lot of things had to be done by hand, miniatures, they also shot in film which would have taken longer to process and edit than digital. In terms of distribution they would have still been using VHS which again would have taken longer to create than that of a DVD or BLU-RAY disc.

Audiences had mixed views, some people didn't like it because it wasn't relevant to the comics, a lot of people hated that it was in 3-D, and in general some people didn't like that it was such a new and different perception of the judge.